“NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING AT THE POLES”
Workshop: November 21 – 23 2012
Dolichospe
University of LIÈGE, BELGIUM
A workshop to discuss new NGS technologies, data analysis
strategies, challenges, and caveats as applied to microbial
ecology.
Nov. 21, 2012: Plenary lectures and discussion centered
around proposing guidelines for inter-laboratory comparisons
Nov. 22/23, 2012: Training course on bioinformatic analyses
(limited number of participants)
Organizers: CCAMBIO project partners
Contact: Annick Wilmotte (awilmotte@ulg.ac.be)
or Dail Laughinghouse (hd.liv@ulg.ac.be)
More information and registration:
http://www.cip.ulg.ac.be/workshopCCAMBIO/
Confirmed Speakers (live or videoconference)
Jean-François Ghiglione: Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne,France
Craig Herbold: University of Waikato, New Zealand
George Kowalchuk: Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Netherlands
Alison Murray: Desert Research Institute, NV, USA
Antonio Quesada: Autonomous University Madrid, Spain
David Pearce: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Thomas Pommier: Université de Lyon 1, France
Étienne Yergeau: National Research Council, Montréal, Canada
Confirmed speakers for Day 1:
1. Jean-François Ghiglione: “Pole to pole biogeography of surface and deep marine bacterial
communities”
2. Craig Herbold: “Avoid the fool’s gold in the cold. Lesson’s learned from sequencing artificial
microbial communities”
3. George Kowalchuk: “Tracking short and long-term microbial responses to environmental
change”
4. Alison Murray: “Different approaches – same story? Studies of Antarctic Peninsula
bacterioplankton through a rapid evolution in DNA sequencing technology”
5. David Pearce: “What metagenomics can tell us about microbial biodiversity”
6. Thomas Pommier: “Investigating microbial diversity: Pitfalls and promises of NGS
approaches”
7. Antonio Quesada: “Biocomplexity of microbial mats. Can we cross the borders with highthroughput sequencing techniques?”
8. Étienne Yergeau: "Metagenomic analyses of Canadian high Arctic soils"
Confirmed teachers for Day 2 and 3:
1. Craig Herbold
2. Alison Murray
3. Thomas Pommier
4. Bjorn Tytgat
Posters’ abstract submission
Maximum 1 A4 page following the model given on the webpage.
How to participate and register?
Fees: Day 1: Normal 85 euros; BSM members 75 euros; APECS/Students 65 euros
Day 2+3: 200 euros (to be paid ONLY after email confirmation of acceptance into the training
course)
The fees are to be paid to the bank account 340-1558020-44 (IBAN BE55340155802044, BIC
BBRUBEBB) (Patrimoine Université de Liège) with the mention “Workshop CCAMBIO-A. Wilmotte +
P.CIIP0130105”
Deadline for registration and abstract submission for Day 1
On the 12th of November 2012
Bioinformatics training on Day 2 and 3
Training of MOTHUR and demonstration of QIIME (limited number of participants). See the website
http://www.cip.ulg.ac.be/workshopCCAMBIO/
Deadline for registration: 8th of November 2012
Place
Academic Room, University of Liège, Place du XX Août, 7, 4000 Liège
(http://www2.ulg.ac.be/salleacademique/). This room is equipped with videoconference facilities.
Please contact us to organise a videoconference link for a group of scientists who cannot travel.
Accommodation
Liège has a number of hotels and a youth hostel:
http://www.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_143439/hotels-de-liege (English version by clicking in upper right
corner)
http://www.lesaubergesdejeunesse.be/presentation,304?lang=en
Contact
Email : Annick Wilmotte or Dail Laughinghouse, Centre for Protein Engineering, Sart Tilman B6,
University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium (awilmotte@ulg.ac.be or hd.liv@ulg.ac.be)
Sponsoring
-Evolution and Biodiversity in Antarctica programme (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research)
-Belgian Society for Microbiology
-FWO contact group Eco-evolution
-Belgian Science Policy Office
-Beckman Coulter Genomics
-Roche
Organizing committee:
Annick Wilmotte & Haywood Dail Laughinghouse, University of Liège, BE
Anne Willems & Bjorn Tytgat, University of Ghent, BE
Elie Verleyen & Wim Vyverman, University of Ghent, BE
Bruno Danis, Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, BE
Alison Murray, Desert Research Institute, NV, USA